New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-10
WHAT THE CONSULS SAY.
TRADE WITH GERMANY AND CUBA


WINE AND FRUIT-sUGAR.
w.survcrov. Nav Oh the latest volume of
Consular REPORTS No 75, Consul Potter. OF Creield,
Germany describes the methods in use IN that country
to restore the fertility OF WORKOUT SOILS lie says
If one of the barren fields of Virginia coud ne Trans
ferred 70 an overpopulated farming district In Prussia
where the soil is generally thin and poor the Gers
would regard it treasure ana IN TWO yeas with ith
scientific and intelligent manipulation II wOulO TEEN WIN
bOuntiful crops.
Consul Millar of Leipsc contributes an interesting
renort Oh the culinary exhibition" held at that
place during the last five days OF January lilo com
paius that the occasion was marred by the conspe
nous absence of American exhibitors" ~bo seeineu
to underestimate its importance distpc'"e
feature of the exhibition the attempt to secure
representative display OF cheap food for the people as
we'll as of cookery in its higher aspects The periec
ton TO which the apparatus for the rapid feeding OF
LARGE numbers of persons with hot food has be IN
bronght was shown on sc veral occasions during the
exhibition, when a hot meal for Lulu OF lew
sol ders was cooked and served out TO the men III
the short space of three quarters OF an hour' Inc
consul remarks that although such arrangements
enable cheap dinners to be supplied to workingmen IN
large towns they do not furnish cheap meals TO ire
work wife and family nor to the laoOrer III
the small towns and villages The exhibition showeo
that much still remains TO be done to make meat
eheap in Germany. Meats of all kinds excellent IN
quality and rea- enable in price, were exhibited out
was meat for the upper aud middle classes. Meat is
still q Luxury for the workIngnan ana VIII 30 iehi'
while expensive English lamb is imported aud cheap
American pork excluded" Although the consumption
of American corned beef and preserved beet Is con
siderable it is too expensive TO be much USED by te
poorer people Among the exhibits were D." meat
nre,ervino candles" made in Vienna, respecting
which the consul writes:
Nv the use of the candles, whose composition Is
secret II is stated that can be kept fresh Tor an IN
definite period at any temperature ana WITHOUT ' ~" "
ice.
Consul Milar holds out to American wine and frnit-
~ bono IN fOr American
will spring up in Germany. He says:
California wine is already known TO some extent IN
Germany, and is proc1rable here III Lepsc: :. :.
further branch Of interest 10 American growers H. l Oh
fruit dried or preserved in syrup Extensive cOlecoh7
of these preparations shown by European makers
and the processes employed appeared 10 nave pcc VIZ
successul but for size and quality the fr coud not
be compared with California products, and there's no
doubt that American fruits energetcally introduced
could compete successfully with native productions
The report OF Consul General Williams, OF Havana,
Cuba shows that Cuba is completely shut out OF the
European sugar market except in the limited market
of the Spanish peninsula and that ninety-four per
cent OF tue Cuban sugar product o. last year was
shipped to the United States Consul Williams. there
fore, feels justified in saying:
Tho existence of the plantations the railroads
uscd i'm Transporting the products OF the plantations 10
the shipping ports OF the island the export and import
TRACES OF Cuba based thereon, each including hundreds
of minor industries. such the agricultural ana me
chanc trades, storchOuses wharvcs and lighters sieve
dorcs brokers' clerks bankers real estate owners ana
shopkcepcrs OF all kinds and holders OF the pubic dcb
arc now all directly related 10 the market OF the United
states to the extent OF 81 per cent for their employment
and only per cent TO other countries, OF these mostly
spain simply for the reason that sugar Is the principal
economic basis OF all those interests.
He remarks that it is the knowledge OF these facts
and the apprehension that Cuba may lose her present
market that leads the people of the island TO urge
upon the Spanish Government tho immediate negotia-
lion of treaty of commerce to put the island in more
harmonious relationship with its natural market the
United States"